Died on This Day (30-Aug)
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Hans Rausing | Hans Anders Rausing, KBE was a Swedish industrialist and philanthropist based in the United Kingdom. | Swedish businessman and philanthropist | 93 | 1 |
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Louise Hay | Louise Lynn Hay was an American motivational author and the founder of Hay House. | American motivational author | 90 | 3 |
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Wes Craven | Wesley Earl Craven was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. | American film director | 76 | 5 |
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Seamus Heaney | | death_place = Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland| nationality = Irish| occupation = Poet, playwright, translator| alma_mater = Queen's University Belfast| period = 1966–2013 | notableworks = * Death of a Naturalist * North * Field Work * The Spirit Level * Beowulf: A New Verse Translation * District and Circle * Human Chain | awards = * Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, 1968 * E. | Irish poet | 74 | 7 |
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Philip Batchelor | Philip Batchelor , was a Swiss-British academic in the fields of mathematics and medical imaging. | British mathematician | 43 | 9 |
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Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper | Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper was the oldest person ever from the Netherlands, breaking the previous record of Catharina van Dam on 26 September 2003, and from 29 May 2004 was thought to be the oldest verified person in the world. | Dutch supercentenarian | 115 | 15 |
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Charles Bronson | Charles Bronson was an American actor who was often cast in roles of police officers, gunfighters, or vigilantes in revenge-oriented plot lines. | American film actor | 81 | 17 |
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Sterling Morrison | Holmes Sterling Morrison Jr. was an American guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of the rock group the Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing backing vocals. | Rock musician | 53 | 25 |
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Taylor Caldwell | Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. | Author | 84 | 35 |
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Florencio Harmodio Arosemena | Florencio Harmodio Arosemena Guillén was the 6th President of Panama from October 1, 1928 to January 3, 1931. | President of Panama | 72 | 75 |
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Ray | Ray was a Hong Kong professional wrestler. After being trained by Emi Sakura, Ray made her professional wrestling debut in September 2003 and would for the next several years wrestle under different masks, before she began working for Smash in March 2010, unmasked under the ring name Lin Byron . | Hong Kong professional wrestler | 36 | 2 |
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Věra Čáslavská | Věra Čáslavská was a Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast and Czech sports official. | Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast | 74 | 4 |
| Igor Decraene | Igor Decraene was a Belgian cyclist. He had ridden professionally since 2012. | Belgian cyclist | 18 | 6 | |
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Igor Kvasha | Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. | Russian actor | 79 | 8 |
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Alain Corneau | Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer. | French film director | 67 | 10 |
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Frank Horton | Frank Jefferson Horton was a United States Representative from New York State. | American politician | 84 | 16 |
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Hideo Sasaki | Hideo Sasaki was an Japanese American landscape architect. | American landscape architect | 80 | 20 |
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Ch'ien Mu | Ch'ien Mu or Qian Mu was a Chinese historian, philosopher and writer. | Chinese academic | 95 | 30 |
| Abraham Zapruder | Abraham Zapruder was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer who witnessed the assassination of United States President John F. | Photographer | 65 | 50 | |
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George T. Thomas | George T. Thomas was a Republican politician from Ohio in the United States. | American politician | 63 | 100 |